Open AccessPrimacy of paper: The importance of the medium in records management
Author(s) -
Gruning Jane
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.2014.14505101142
Subject(s) - records management , bridging (networking) , work (physics) , set (abstract data type) , ethnography , computer science , historical record , data science , knowledge management , sociology , political science , engineering , computer security , law , biography , mechanical engineering , anthropology , programming language
This poster presents findings from a group ethnographic study of records managers at four different sites. At the site that is the focus of this analysis, research participants’ tasks primarily consisted of examining individual case files to determine if the files should be kept or destroyed under the relevant rules set by records managers. Close observation of work practices showed that application of records management rules varied depending on the medium of the records. This study begins the work of bridging a gap between archival and records management policies for interactions with records across varying media, and empirical research on how people interact with objects on varying media.